Shoe polish holder, applicator, and buffing device



G. B. HUME 2,862;221

SHOE POLISH HOLDER, APPLICATOR, AND BUFFING DEVICE Dec. 2, 1958 Filed July 1, 1955 Fig. 5

INVENTOR. jufima )3. 7M

ATTORNE YS SHOE POLISH HOLDER, APPLICATOR, AND BUFFING DEVICE Gertrude B. Hume, West Newton, Mass.

Application July 1, 1955, Serial No. 519,366

1 Claim. (Cl. 15-258) This invention comprises a new and improved shoe polishing device especially formed to facilitate application of polish or of a shoe shining element to that portion of the upper adjacent to the sole of the shoe. For this purpose the device includes a tubular holder having an outwardly flaring rim shaped to fit in the crease between the sole and the upper, and to direct either bristles or other polishing element, or the paste itself, to adjacent areas of the upper. My improved device is constructed and arranged to include or present shoe polishing paste for convenient application as well as the shoe polishing element which may take the form of a body of bristles. For example, the device may include a holder having a body of bristles extending outwardly from one end and a tubular guard mounted on the holder and having an outwardly flaring rim as above suggested, the guard initially enclosing the bristles and being slidable inwardly on the holder to expose them as desired.

The tubular holder and guard may be constructed of sheet metal or of synthetic resins, transparent, translucent or colored, so that the device as a whole is attractive in appearance as well as being extremely convenient in use.

These and other features of the invention will be best understood and appreciated from the following description of several preferred embodiments thereof selected for purposes of illustration and shown in the accompanying drawings in which:

Fig. 1 is a view in longitudinal section,

Fig. 2 is a view in elevation showing the tubular guard partially retracted,

Fig. 3 is a view in longitudinal section of a device of modified form,

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary sectional view of a second modification, and

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary view showing the device of Fig. 1 in operative relation to a shoe.

The tubular holder of Fig. 1 is shown as cylindrical throughout its length except that its lower rim is outwardly flared. It contains at its upper end a compact body of bristles 11 which is retained within a ring 12 permanently secured in the upper end of the holder 10. The body of bristles 11 is enclosed within a tubular guard 13 which is telescopically fitted upon the holder 10 and slidable thereon from the position shown in Fig. 1 in which the bristles are totally enclosed to some such position as that shown in Fig. 2 in which the bristles are exposed for shoe polishing purposes in operative relation to the flaring rim. The upper rim of the guard 13 is outwardly flared to fit in the crease between the sole and upper as suggested in Fig. 5.

In the lower portion of the tubular holder 10 is contained a cartridge 15 of shoe polishing paste. This is forced continuously against a perforated cover 16 which may be formed, for example, of wire mesh covered by a fabric of loose weave and fastened as a unit within the lower flared end of the holder. The cartridge 15 is backed up by a flanged disk 17 shown as provided with an O-ring gasket and backed up by a compression spring 19, and the term cartridge is used to include both the paste and the disk 17. This maintains pressure upon the paste and causes it to exude through the cover 16 as the latter is rubbed over the surface of the shoe. At its upper end the spring 19 is seated against the base of 'the bristles 11 where they are bound together by the ring 12. The lower end of the device is shown as closed by a spring metal cap 20. This, of course, may be forcibly detached whenever desired.

The modification shown in Fig. 3 includes in its structure a tubular holder 21 having a flaring rim 22 at its upper end in which is mounted a perforated cover 23 like that already disclosed. Within the holder is provided a cartridge 24 of polishing paste and this is backed up by a flanged disk 25 that may be advanced in the holder by pressure transmitted to it by the user. The upper end of the holder is closed by a cap 26 of spring metal and a semi-circular polishing pad 27 is permanently secured to the surface of the holder.

In the modification shown in Fig. 4 the cylindrical holder 30 is provided with a tubular extension member 31 having an outwardly flaring rim for the purpose already described, and including a perforated cover 32 for controlling the polishing paste of the device.

Having thus disclosed my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A shoe polish holder, applicator, and bufling device comprising in combination a tubular casing open at both ends having mounted in one open end a set of outwardly extending polishing bristles, an open end outwardly flared guard, frictionally slidable, disposed about both casing and bristles tending to conform said bristles to fit in the crease of a sole and upper of a shoe, a compression spring within said tube seated against the base of said bristles and bearing against a cartridge of shoe polishing paste disposed within the tube at the opposite end thereof and tending thereby to force said polish out of the open end opposite the brush, said polish being restrained by a perforated cover, permanently fixed to said opposite open end, permitting the said paste to exude as the cover is rubbed over the surface of a shoe and said cover having a detachable spring metal cap.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 230,120 French July 20, 1880 351,098 Dessau Oct. 19, 1886 695,945 Pfeifer Mar. 25, 1902 1,595,726 Pierce Aug. 10, 1926 1,740,043 Schatzer Dec. 17, 1929 1,971,478 Chapin Aug. 28, 1934 2,238,953 Steinmetz Apr. 22, 1941 FOREIGN PATENTS 462,089 France Nov. 14, 1913 Patented Dec. 2, 1958 

